Ian Botham Quotes

• To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

  Ian Botham

  Sports, Winning, Squash

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• Aussies are big and empty, just like their country.

  Ian Botham

  Country, Empty, Bigs

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• I don't ask my wife to face Michael Holding, so there's no reason why I should be changing nappies.

  Ian Botham

  Wife, Faces, Reason Why

  "The Open, Ian Botham, European Cup goals and Damon Albarn on target". www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2015.

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• Pakistan is the sort of place every man should send his mother-in-law, for a month, with all expenses paid.

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  Mother, Men, Law

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• If I'd done a quarter of the things of which I'm accused, I'd be pickled in alcohol, I'd be a registered drug addict and would have sired half the children in the world's cricket-playing countries

  Ian Botham

  Country, Children, Alcohol

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• What's happened has happened, so what can we do to make it better for tomorrow and the day after? That's why we're here

  Ian Botham

  Tomorrow, Happened

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• I want to stress again one aspect of the game which is most important. Never argue with an umpire.

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  Stress, Games, Umpires

  1980 Ian Botham on Cricket.

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• For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.

  Ian Botham

  Faces, Moments, Mortality

  Ian Botham (2017). “Botham: My Autobiography”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

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• If you're playing against the Australians, you don't walk.

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  Walks, Ifs

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• Genghis Khan was a fascinating man and way ahead of his time.

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  Men, Way, Fascinating

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• I'm not a great one for looking back.

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  Great Ones, Looking Back

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• I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.

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  Struggle, Swimming, Thinking

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• There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes

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  Sports, Country, Two

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• To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport

  Ian Botham

  Sports, Winning, Australia

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• I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test

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  Team, Thinking, Two

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• Cricket is full of theorists who can ruin your game in no time.

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  Games, Ruins, Cricket

  1980 Ian Botham on Cricket.

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• Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions

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  Sports, Community, Together

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• Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

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  Soccer, Sports, Growing Up

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• I don't think I've actually drunk a beer for 15 years, except a few Guinnesses in Dublin, where it's the law.

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  Beer, Thinking, Years

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• A few years ago England would have struggled to beat the Eskimos

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  Years, Years Ago, England

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• The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do you do? Talk to your teammates.

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  Bad Day, People, Village

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• Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

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  Retirement, Tunnels, Light

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• You wouldn't see those sorts of decisions given in village cricket, let alone Test cricket. The England players have my sympathy.

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  Player, Decision, Village

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• I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me

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  Children, Dying, Stay With Me

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• Jacques Rudolph at the moment is using the inside edge as much as the middle of the bat.

  Ian Botham

  Bats, Rudolph, Moments

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